Cutting Down Alcohol Thread

Barny1979

19/24 AFDs today

Green_Karen

12 AF days for tonight.

Please put me down for 14 AF days in September thanks Shaggy.

shaggydoo

Couple of interesting Links


https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/aug/27/drinkers-like-me-adrian-chiles-review-the-complicated-conflicted-world-of-boozing


https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/i-m-adrian-chiles-and-i-m-not-an-alcoholic-1.3610147


https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/adrian-chiles-documentary-drinkers-like-me-alcoholism-mental-health-a8511631.html

cathybird

Morning all, 23/21 for me today thanks.

shaggydoo

Fabrab 3/5

Maman 2/4

Shaggydoo 2/4

shaggydoo

August 2018


= 7 Days

= 14 Days

= 21 Days


= 28 Days


= 31 Days


= Target Reached


= Target Beaten





Arkers 21/10
Barney 19/24
CathyBird 23/21
Fabrab 23/28
GreenKaren 12/7
Honey Bear 28/31

ItIsMe /5

MaggieM /5
Maman 14/10
Mr Curious 10/28
Pricey 19/23
Shaggydoo 12/16
Sukeyboo 13/12

WannaBeeFree 2/16





Everyone Welcome Anytime of the Month!

shaggydoo

September 2018


= 7 Days

= 14 Days

:T= 21 Days


:j= 28 Days


:money: = 30 Days


:A= Target Reached


:starmod:= Target Beaten





Arkers

Barney

CathyBird /21

Doshwaster /25

Fabrab /26

GreenKaren /14

Honey Bear /30

ItIsMe

MaggieM

Maman /10

Mr Curious

Pricey /22

Shaggydoo /21

Sukeyboo /12

WannaBeeFree /10





Everyone Welcome Anytime of the Month!

shaggydoo

Roll Up, Roll Up!

It's the Monthlly Challenge !

Set Your
TARGET


30 Days up for grabs!

Everyone Welcome!

shaggydoo

Have a good day everyone.



Chucking it down here and we have tilers in who need to come in and out of the house and up to our loft bathroom....


...oh joy....


By the way, Alexa says there will be no rain today here in London.... :-/

Honey_Bear

And I left a load of washing on the line overnight because it wasn't due to rain here, either, Shaggy. It is. Of course it is.

wintersunshine wrote: »

And - Why on earth did Frank Skinner encourage him to keep on drinking?

Because unless you're 100% committed to stopping, it won't work. Because everyone who drinks and smokes has been told the health message 100,000 times and all it does is make the addict feel carp about themselves if they can't just conquer the addition. Because they're friends and sometimes it's sensible to guide a friend through a process than dictate what they should and shouldn't do right now - which never works. Because the programme is edited to make the story work, rather than educate the public.

cathybird wrote: »

Indeed, or illnesses like pancreatitis - I was speaking to a doctor/alcohol expert a few years ago and he said everyone knows about the liver but don't necessarily realise that alcohol can destroy other organs and cause many different conditions, including (for instance) pancreatitis, which he said was absolutely horrible and incredibly painful.

The only woman included said she'd had a breast cancer diagnosis a few years ago and that had made her want to live life to the full. Her version of doing so was to drink even more heavily than Adrian Chiles during at least one of the evenings they spent together.

The link between breast cancer and alcohol is absolutely proven and clear. If a woman drinks to excess her chances of breast cancer skyrocket. It broke my heart.

maman wrote: »

Like you wintersunshine I thought they skated over certain things. I suppose they were trying to only show Adrian's type of social drinkers rather than 'typical' alcoholics.

The image of a scruffy older man in a dirty, smelly coat sitting on a park bench swigging cans of special brew or cider is a bit outdated. (Mostly they're much younger now.) And they're the ones that have chaotic lives, alcohol being just the tip of the signs and symptoms of their chaotic lives.

Most of us with an alcohol problem are middle class, can afford the booze, and look fairly healthy. He lives in the kind of flat most of us can only dream about, working in a glamerous world and has a love affair with his football team that provides a social life with his roots. Outwardly he's very successful by any measure in our society.

He was married to Jane Garvey, the Woman's Hour presenter, and they divorced very quietly shortly after he took on the ITV breakfast show job that didn't work out at all well, that he talked about being sacked from. They have two kids - they weren't mentioned once. He did, however, talk about meeting someone new and not knowing how to get to know them without booze. Very, very telling.

It's our non-dependent friends and family that can tell you whether our behaviour crosses boundaries. And only we know how many days we've been underperforming in life, not just necessarily work, because we're too knackered to do anything fun or constructive. I lost days, weeks, months, years to feeling so sluggish I never actually did anything.

29/31 please, Shaggy.